ABAQUS/CAE User's Manual


2.2.3 Components of the toolbar

The toolbar contains a convenient set of tools for managing your files and viewing your model. Items in the toolbar are shortcuts to functions that are also available from the main menu bar. The toolbar is shown in the following figure:

To obtain a short description of a tool, place the cursor over that tool for a moment; a small box containing a description, or “tooltip,” will appear. The tools are divided into the following groups:

Database manipulation and printing

The database manipulation tools allow you to create, open, and save model databases; to open output databases; and to print viewports. For more information, see Part II, “Working with ABAQUS/CAE model databases, models, and files,” and Chapter 8, “Printing viewports.”

View manipulation

The view manipulation tools allow you to specify different views of the model or plot. For example, you can pan, rotate, or zoom the model or plot using these tools. For more information, see Chapter 5, “Manipulating the view and controlling perspective.”

View and display options

The view and display option tools allow you to customize the appearance of your model. For example, you can specify whether wireframe, hidden line, filled (available in the Visualization module only), or shaded render style will be used and whether perspective will be applied. You can also switch between displaying the geometry of an ABAQUS/CAE native part and the meshed representation (if it exists) of the same part. For more information, see “Choosing a render style,” Section 36.2.1; “Controlling perspective,” Section 5.4; and “Displaying a native mesh,” Section 17.3.8.

Query

Use the query tool to obtain information about the geometry and features of your model, to probe model and X–Y plots for output data, and to perform stress linearization on your results. For more information, see Chapter 45, “The Query toolset,” Chapter 30, “Querying and probing,” and Chapter 32, “Calculating linearized stresses.”

Display groups

The display group tools allow you to selectively plot one or more model or output database items. For example, you can create a display group that contains only the elements belonging to specified sets in your model. For more information, see Chapter 52, “Using display groups to display subsets of your model.”

Color coding

Use the color code tool to customize the colors of items in the viewport. You can create color mappings that assign unique colors to different elements of a display. For example, when using a part instance color mapping, each part instance in a model will appear as a different color. For more information, see Chapter 51, “Color coding geometry and mesh elements.”

Help

Use the context-sensitive help tool to display detailed information about any tool, menu, dialog box, or option in ABAQUS/CAE. For more information, see “Getting help,” Section 2.6.


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